Patricia Polacco
2) Pink and Say
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Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
3) Thunder cake
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A grandmother helps her granddaughter get over her fear of thunderstorms by getting her to help bake a thunder cake.
10) Clara and Davie
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Depicts the life of a young Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross.
11) John Philip Duck
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During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.
12) The bee tree
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To teach his grandaughter the value of books a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
13) The butterfly
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During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
14) Emma Kate
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Emma Kate and her best friend, a toy elephant, share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!
19) Welcome Comfort
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Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
20) Meteor!
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A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.